RALEIGH, N.C. -- A University of North Carolina professor is complaining his conviction on drug smuggling charges in Argentina is an injustice.

Sixty-eight-year-old UNC-Chapel Hill physics professor Paul Frampton said he unknowingly carried 4 pounds of cocaine hidden in a suitcase from Bolivia while on a quest to meet a famous bikini model who is in her 30s.

British news reports say Frampton told investigators he was in Argentina to meet a model he'd met online and someone gave him a bag they claimed belonged to the woman, a Czech model called Denise Milani.

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Frampton also is fighting a decision by university officials to stop paying his $107,000 salary for failing to fulfill teaching and other duties. Frampton says he's now worried the university will fire him.

Liberalism is definitely a mental disease. This guy gets caught smuggling drugs and he's PO'ed because the college doesn't want to continue to pay him while he's in jail in Argentina....unreal. This is what is teaching our kids and grandchildren. No wonder the US is so screwed up. He's just too stupid to be in the position of a professor.

Now that the close to 70 British-born particular physics professor Frampton has through his stinking behavior made himself an international laughing stock and drug-running criminal whos in danger of losing his university salary, hes asking for double his salary!

“It looks like he made a bad decision to accept a bag that he shouldn’t have accepted, but it’s a terrible thing to have to spend several years in prison for that,” Mark Williams, a UNC professor of math, told WRAL-TV.

So Prof. Williams thinks the problem is taking a bag, not that a 68 year old man flies to Argentina to meet a 30 year old “model”?

From your article it looks like he was more a dope than a dupe and guilty to boot:

According to the News & Observer, during the three-day trial, a prosecutor showed the court calculations  made in Frampton's handwriting  of the drugs' value. The prosecution also presented texts and e-mails Frampton thought he was sending to Milani the day before his arrest, which apparently said he was "worried about the sniffer dogs" and that he was "looking after [the] special little suitcase".

It’s a long boring story, but in line at the Manila airport once, I watched a kung fu type of shaved head monk in robes talk two Asian girls into carrying his new clock radio in a box to their next destination, since he had too many bags to check. I listened to make sure none of them were on my plane, thank goodness.

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